---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 17 Aug 2000 New in IGCS - History: Online Documentary: The Nanking Atrocities Ed./Corp.: Masato Kajimoto, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA URL: http://web.missouri.edu/~jschool/nanking/ Language: English. Resource type: Study. Self description: "[C]omprehensive accounts of the Nanking Atrocities that took place 1937-38 Nanking, China during the early stage of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It includes interviews with leading historians in this field as well as historical photographs and a number of other documented materials such as newspaper articles, diaries of former Japanese soldiers and American missionaries who were in Nanking when the incident took place, and the judgment of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial." Description: This site is an August 2000 thesis, by Masato Kajimoto, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Journalism in the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of Missouri-Columbia. An online documentary which gives a very good overview of the events and the historical debate including interviews and videos. The full-text with footnotes is downloadable. Site contents: (1) Introduction (From Marco Polo Bridge to Nanking; Focal Points of the Nanking Atrocities Today; (Video) China Invaded); (2) The Fall of Nanking (What Foreign Journalists Witnessed; (Reference) The New York Times Articles; (Video) The Battle of China); (3) The Reign of Terror (What Japanese Journalists Witnessed; The Safety Zone and American Missionaries; (Reference) What Westerners Witnessed; (Video) China Invaded); (4) Confessions of Former Soldiers (Killing Prisoners of War; The Yamada Detachment; Rape and Pillage; (Video) The Battle of China); (5) Psychological Warfare (Chinese Propaganda; Japanese Propaganda; (Video) Nanking); (6) The Postwar Judgment (International Military Tribunal for the Far East; Nanking War Crimes Tribunal; (Reference) The Judgment of the IMTFE; (Photo Gallery) The Tokyo Trial); (7) The Nanking Atrocities in the 1990s (The Death Toll - Early Estimates; The Death Toll - Current Estimates; The Controversy in Japan; (Photo Gallery) Nanking City); (8) Works Cited (Selected bibliography of books, journals, newspapers, and films / List of interviewees / Other references / Military Postcards). Note: Acrobat Reader for downloading the full-text needed! RealPlayer for viewing the videos needed! Resource suggested via the Asian Studies WWW Monitor (12 Aug. 2000) by Masato Kajimoto, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L